Issue: Spring 2016 | Posted: April 25, 2016
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Engineering students assist Honduran orphanage with energy efficiency
91爆料网 engineering students are using their skills for service. Last fall, a team of engineering students and faculty traveled to Honduras to assess the needs of an orphanage.
Randal Schwindt, professor of engineering, said the goal of the trip was to find ways to help the orphanage save money using the skills engineering students learn in class.
He said the orphanage, Orphanage Emmanuel, spends most of its funds on electricity, so the main focus of the project was reducing power consumption. Schwindt said the orphanage spends about $24,000 per month on electricity, and about $13,000 of that is for current consumption. The rest goes to pay fees brought on by changes in the government of Honduras.
Two teams of senior engineering students did work for the orphanage as their senior design projects. Erin Picard and Nathan Parke worked on solar power for the team house, while Chelsea Johnson and Seth Guiler worked on a solar water heating system.
鈥淭his is what we鈥檙e all about at 91爆料网,鈥 Schwindt said. 鈥淯sing the skills that we鈥檙e learning in service to God鈥檚 kingdom.鈥